Boxed version of Fedora
Karsten 'quaid' Wade
kwade at redhat.com
Sat Mar 22 07:56:11 UTC 2008
On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 01:19 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> As the current FAQ maintainer and the one who added that particular
> answer to the FAQ, let me point out some details for additional context.
...
> When Red Hat decided to create the Red Hat Linux Project which later got
> renamed in Fedora Project, Red Hat published this particular answer as a
> result of it's experience (and dealing with loses in a retail product)
> while creating Red Hat Linux releases roughly twice a year and I copied
> it over from http://fedora.redhat.com pages when I created the FAQs
> since I knew that site was going away soon at that time.
>
> A lot of details have changed and Fedora Project of today is a different
> beast (or angel if you will). We could certainly reevaluate our
> considerations and IMO we should.
It is worth pointing out that you did not have experience from inside of
a rapidly moving distribution trying also to be a retail boxed product,
right? There were very good reasons that model was a PITA and it was
dropped, reasons that haven't changed since then.
- Karsten, glad not to be writing the slimmed down version of the
Installation Guide to fit with the media pack in the retail box
--
Karsten Wade, Sr. Developer Community Mgr.
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